"Jonathan Kamens" <jik@kamens.brookline.ma.us> wrote in message
news:g77kpf$2bm$1@jik3.kamens.brookline.ma.us...
> Greetings,
>
> At our house, we seem to go through an electric hand mixer
> (like, e.g.,
> http://www.shopkitchenaid.com/produc...&T1=KTA+KHM3WH)
> every 2-3 years. We don't use the mixer that
> often, maybe two or three times per month, and yet there
> always comes a time when the blades stop spinning and wisps of
> smoke come drifting out of the motor, along with the awful
> smell of a motor that shell spin its blades no more.
>
> Having once again smelled the smoke of hand-mixer doom, we are
> once again in the market for a new one, and so I thought I'd
> post and ask: is there a mixer on the market that won't give
> up the ghost after a few years (and if so where can we get
> it), or are we doomed to continue contributing to the
> ever-growing global waste disposal problem as long as we want
> to keep making chocolate chip cookies?


http://www.cooking.com/products/shprodde.asp?SKU=142281

You need a mixer with dough hooks for making cookies,
Or get a kitchen aid.


--
Old Scoundrel

(AKA Dimitri)